Modeling & Simulation Engineer, Radars

chaosindustries; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

CHAOS Industries is seeking a Modeling & Simulation Engineer for Radars to develop, integrate, and validate physics-based radar models and sensor simulations. You will work across analytical, behavioral, and IQ-level domains, collaborating with radar architecture, RF/antenna, signal processing, and embedded software teams.

The role involves building high-fidelity models, performing design trades and uncertainty analyses, and integrating algorithms into diverse simulation environments (SIL, SITL,

Qualifications

• Experience with radar simulation at signal- or IQ-level.
• Knowledge of radar detection, measurement generation, discrimination, or signal processing.
• Experience with radar tracking, estimation, data association, or sensor fusion.
• Knowledge of radar modes, resource management, or system-performance analysis.
• Familiarity with RF propagation, clutter, interference, electronic warfare, or protection.
• Experience with real-time radar stimulation (HITL/HWIL).
• Strong programming ability in MATLAB, Python, or C++.
• Experience with Monte Carlo, sensitivity analysis, uncertainty modeling, or design of experiments.

Responsibilities

• Develop, integrate, and validate radar models across analytical, behavioral, measurement-level, and IQ-level domains.
• Build models with appropriate fidelity for design decisions and testing objectives.
• Characterize performance using metrics like PDet, false-alarm, range, and tracking accuracy.
• Integrate radar algorithms, software, and hardware interfaces into SIL/SITL/HITL/HWIL environments.
• Produce validation data, documentation, and customer deliverables.

Skills

Radar simulation

Radar detection & signal processing

Radar tracking & data association

RF propagation & interference

Real-time stimulation (HITL/HWIL)

Programming (MATLAB/Python/C++)

Monte Carlo & uncertainty analysis

Tools

MATLAB

Python

C++

SIL/SITL/HITL/HWIL

Job description

CHAOS Industries is redefining modern defense with a multi-product portfolio that gives the ultimate advantage-domain dominance. The company's products are powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™), empowering warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams to act faster, adapt rapidly, and stay ahead of evolving threats. CHAOS Industries was founded in 2022 and has raised a total of $1 billion in funding from leading investors, including 8VC, Accel, and Valor Equity Partners. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, and London. For more information, please visit www.chaosinc.com.

About the Team:

The Modeling & Simulation team builds the simulation capabilities used to design, integrate, test, and validate advanced aerospace and defense systems. We develop physics-based models, simulation environments, and analysis tools that help engineering teams evaluate system behavior, improve designs, and reduce risk before hardware design, integration, test, and fielding.

About the Role:

As a Modeling & Simulation Engineer for Radars, you will develop, integrate, and validate models of radar and RF sensing systems. You will work across analytical, behavioral, measurement-level, signal/ IQ -level, and closed-loop system models, selecting the fidelity appropriate to the design decision, software integration activity, test event, or verification objective. You will partner with radar architecture, RF and antenna, signal processing, tracking, embedded software, systems engineering, test, and product teams.

Experience in every area below is not expected; candidates with depth in one or more relevant modeling and simulation domains are encouraged to apply.

What You'll Do:

• Develop, integrate, and maintain physics-based and performance-based models of radar and RF sensing systems.
• Build models at appropriate levels of fidelity, including analytical radar-performance models, behavioral sensor models, measurement-generation models, signal or complex- IQ models, radar-mode models, tracker models, and closed-loop system simulations.
• Model applicable radar effects such as antenna and beam patterns, beam steering, waveforms, RF -chain behavior, thermal noise, propagation loss, atmospheric effects, multipath, clutter, interference, jamming, target radar cross section, calibration errors, measurement biases, and uncertainty.
• Develop or integrate applicable detection, thresholding, discrimination, measurement extraction, data-association, tracking, estimation, classification, sensor-fusion, radar-mode, and resource-management functions.
• Build target, scene, geometry, trajectory, environmental, and threat models needed to evaluate radar performance in operationally relevant scenarios.
• Perform design trades, sensitivity studies, Monte Carlo analysis, uncertainty quantification, and design of experiments.
• Characterize performance using metrics such as signal-to-noise or signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio, probability of detection, false-alarm performance, coverage, detection range, measurement accuracy, track accuracy, revisit rate, update rate, latency, track capacity, and robustness to environmental or threat effects.
• Integrate radar algorithms, radar software, embedded software, sensor models, target models, and hardware interfaces into SIL , SITL , HITL , HWIL , real-time, or large-scale batch simulation environments as applicable.
• Validate and correlate models against analytical references, laboratory and chamber measurements, calibration data, recorded signal or IQ data, radar-range data, field-test data, flight-test data, and other authoritative sources.
• Define model requirements, interfaces, assumptions, limitations, validity domains, configuration controls, and acceptance or credibility criteria.
• Develop and maintain simulation software, model APIs, scenario-generation tools, configuration systems, data pipelines, visualization tools, analysis workflows, and automated regression tests.
• Support pre-test prediction, test planning, test-card or scenario development, test execution, anomaly investigation, and post-test analysis.
• Produce clear model documentation, validation evidence, performance reports, engineering-review material, and customer or program deliverables.

Required Qualifications:

• Signal- or complex- IQ -level radar simulation.
• Radar detection, measurement generation, discrimination, or signal processing
• Radar tracking, estimation, data association, or sensor fusion
• Radar modes, resource management, or system-performance analysis
• RF propagation, clutter, interference, electronic warfare, or electronic protection
• Real-time radar stimulation, HITL , or HWIL .
• Strong programming ability in at least one scientific or analytical environment such as MATLAB , Python, or C++.
• Experience with Monte Carlo simulation, sensitivity analysis, statistical analysis, uncertainty modeling, or design of ex